Tuesday, June 5, 2012

May 2012 Traffic

May 2012 traffic stats were released from airport authorities with overall arrivals losing some 7.5% to last May. The domestic market is clearly on crisis as it continues deteriorating while international arrivals did better than expected since last year was a record year due to unrest in North African countries.


Arrivals Summary

2012
2011
+/- %
Domestic Arrivals
22.961
28.008
- 18.02%
International Arrivals
197.505
210.273
- 6.07%
Total
220.466
238.281
- 7.48%


International Arrivals by Country
Country
2012
2011
+/-%
England
41.915
36.575
+14.6
Germany
30.237
37.722
-19.84
Sweden
19.851
18.860
+5.25
Russia
18.234
15.296
+19.21
France
10.529
15.108
-30.31
Norway
10.247
7.474
+37.1
Finland
9.454
12.288
-23.48
Netherlands
9.039
9.903
-8.72
Israel
8.752
5.776
+51.52
Denmark
8.253
7.322
+12.72
Poland
6.341
6.422
-1.26
Belgium
6.000
8.884
-31.69
Italy
5.109
12.346
-58.62
Austria
2.819
3.499
-19.43
Switzerland
2.713
3.119
-13.02
Czech Rep.
1.860
2.693
-30.93
Lithuania
1.572
1.465
+7.3
Ukraine
1.329
2.065
-35.64
Luxemburg
1.123
1.179
-4.75
Cyprus
702
1.125
-37.6
Slovenia
503
147
+242.18
Romania
325
447
-27.29
Belarussia
275
147
+87.07
Albania
162
310
-47.74
Estonia
161
0
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Monday, June 4, 2012

Which is the biggest airline @ RHO?

Well, after long and tiring efforts we 've managed to short of answer the question which is the biggest airline at Rhodes in terms of seats offered and flights planned.
To achieve this, we had to go through each airline schedule for May and June and although the accumulated stats may not be 101% accurate, as some flights were or will be cancelled, they surely provide a glimpse on the subject.

And the winner is...
...Aegean Airlines which offers by far the most seats to RHO including their charter operations. Some other interesting conclusions are:
- Ryanair's 5th place while Rhodes is in its 3rd year of service
- Olympic Air's low average seats per fly explained by the many flights performed with small planes
- The presence of 4 airlines on the TOP-20 that specialize in the Scandinavian market
- The limited presence of Easyjet compared to their schedule for Heraklion i.e., a finding probably worth of further analysis.

So, here is the TOP-20 list for May and June months:

Rank
Airline
Seats
Flights
Rank/flights
Avg seats/flight
1
Aegean Airlines
88.200
568
1
155
2
Thomson
42.526
188
5
226
3
Olympic Air
40.069
453
2
88
4
TUIfly
37.989
201
3
189
5
Ryanair
35.910
190
4
189
6
Thomas Cook Scandinavia
32.454
142
6
228
7
Transaero
31.643
84
13
376
8
Smartwings/Travel Service
20.524
113
7
181
9
Thomas Cook
19.865
92
10
215
10
Condor
19.782
113
8
175
11
Hello
17.400
100
9
174
12
TUI Nordic
17.166
82
14
209
13
Transavia
16.272
88
12
184
14
Norwegian
13.950
75
16
186
15
Jetairfly
13.576
79
15
171
16
Holidays CSA
12.446
72
17
172
17
Airberlin
11.226
61
18
184
18
Novair
10.339
49
20
211
19
Arkia
10.289
48
22
214
20
Easyjet
10.140
57
19
177


























It would be further interesting to compare our results to the actual ones based on flights performed and airline load factors but such data are hard to find and may also be confidential.

Anyway, we hope you find our little analysis useful and for sure we will do our best to repeat it during the high season months as well as at the season's end for final results.